During the past year, no interested party has prepared the necessary Main Inclusion Request (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionProcess for details) for the timidity extras package. That is the appropriate method by which to include the package in the main archive, and from then into the default install. This bug, while identifying an issue with the environment, no longer provides meaningful guidance towards a solution.
Personally, I feel that the preparation of a gstreamer-midi package (perhaps depending on timidity, but not tiimdity-interfaces-extra) would be a better solution, and that the appropriate forum for such discussion is as a specification request (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureSpecifications). -- Default Ubuntu desktop can't play midi files (not Kubuntu) https://launchpad.net/bugs/45852 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
